Having a fireplace can give your home in the Lorain area a warm and cozy feel on cold winter days and nights. If your home doesn’t have a chimney, getting a ventless fireplace might be a good option for you. Find out more about these types of fireplaces so you can decide if a ventless option is right for your home. Read More
In houses or apartments where central air conditioning isn’t feasible, a window A/C is a viable alternative for cooling individual rooms or limited spaces. Read More
Bringing a new child into your home is an exhilarating experience, but it can also be a stressful one if you haven’t fully prepared your household. We thought it’d be a good idea if we did our part by giving you a few tips for proper nursery ventilation and HVAC safety for the newest addition to your home. Read More
Since we’ll all be cranking up our heating equipment again soon, it’s time that we discuss how you can protect members of your household from the dangers of carbon monoxide due to leaks. Here are a few carbon monoxide safety tips that you should start following right now: Read More
As temperatures drop in the Lorain area, this is a good time to make sure your heating system is in good condition. Doing these home maintenance tasks in November helps ensure that you’ll have reliable and efficient heating throughout the winter months. Read More
As the weather turns colder once again, it’s important that homeowners take the steps necessary to effectively winter-proof their household. To give you a headstart, we’ve come up with a five-step winter preparation plan that you can follow. Read More
Whole house humidifiers provide a comprehensive solution to low humidity issues inside the home. While insufficient humidity isn’t a problem during our hot Ohio summers, once cold temperatures arrive, many houses experience dry air. It’s a result of two basic facts: cold outdoor air contains far less humidity in winter and gas-fired heating inside the house tends to reduce water vapor content in the air even more. Read More
A combustion efficiency test of your gas-fired furnace provides a qualified HVAC service technician with important safety, performance and efficiency data. Exhaust produced by a furnace includes a variety of gasses that should be present at specific percentages in relation to each other. Using a combustion analyzer, a trained HVAC service tech can go beyond simple visual inspection and sample the exhaust gases to check for subtle imbalances or discrepancies that may indicate a major problem. Read More
As we venture forth into the colder months of the year once again, we’re reminded how important it is to stop heat from escaping your home. It can sometimes be tricky to stop home heat loss, so here are some simple solutions to home heat loss: Read More
There’s never a good time to find out that your home’s furnace has a cracked heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is the component that contains the high-temperature furnace burner flame while transferring generated heat into the system airflow. An intact heat exchanger seals toxic combustion gasses—including dangerous carbon monoxide—out of the airflow and diverts them safely up the vent flue to the outdoors. Read More
Angie Lyczkowski is the owner and manager of operations at Energy 1 Heating and Air Conditioning... More »
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Serving the Lorain, OH Area